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Avant-garde[edit]
- 1912, Niko Pirosmani’s art discovered by the local artists Ilia and Kirill Zdanevich and the Russian Painter Mikhail Le-Dantiu
- 1917, Flowering of literary modernism. In the years following the October Revolution an influx of Russian writers, poets and artists to the Georgian capital Tbilisi.
- 1917, Establishment of the Fantastic Tavern (Fantasticheskii kabachok), where Russian and Georgian avant-garde poets and artists recite, perform, and lecture together.
- 1917, Cabaret Chimaera [Khimerioni] opens in Tbilisi. Designed by Sergei Sudeikin, Lado Gudiashvili and Davit Kakabadze it becomes a meeting place for members of the Russian and Georgian artistic community and brings together both Georgian and Russian art.
- 1917, The "Futurist Syndicate", the first manifestation of the Tbilisi avant-garde. It is dominated by the organizing presence of the Muscovite Aleksei Kruchenykh and attracts local artists such as Lado Gudiashvili, the resident Armenian futurist Kara-Dervish, and the Zdanevich brothers Ilia and Kirill.
- Kruchenykh joins forces with the Zdanevich brothers to form the futurist group Forty-One Degrees.
- F/NAGT (ill. Rodchenko, Zdanevich), KruchenykhObesity of Roses and Lacquered Tights, Terentev’s Fakt (both with covers by Zdanevich) and To Sofiia Grigorievna MelnikovaLado Gudiashvili exhibits 80 paintings showing Futurist influence
- 1924-28 The Georgian futurists publish three journals, all shortlived: H2SO4 (the formula for sulphuric acid), Lit'erat'ura da skhva (Literature and the Rest), and Memartskheneoba (Leftness).
- Resources
- Modernism.ge, resource on Georgian avant-garde.
- Literature
- Ketevan Kintsurashvili,The Zdanevich Brothers: Kirill and Ilia (The Polish Traces in the Georgian Avant-Garde), Tbilisi: KJ Artbooks, 2019.
- Ketevan Kintsurashvili,Z, The Plastic Ornament of the Epoch: David Kakabadze, Warsaw: PWN, 2018.
- Ketevan Kintsurashvili, Pirosmani - flaneur, Wroclaw: KEW, 2018.
- Ketevan Kintsurashvili,From Deda Ena to H2SO4: at the Origins of Georgian Avant-Garde Books, Wroclaw: KEW, 2018.
- Ketevan Kintsurashvili, The Peacock's Tail, Modernism: Georgian Performance 1912-1936, PWN, Warszawa, Poland, 2018
- Ketevan Kintsurashvili,David Kakabadze, Tbilisi: Bakur Sulakauri Publishing House, 2013.
- Ketevan Kintsurashvili,David Kakabadze: Georgian Modern Artist and Inventor, New York: Nova, 2013.
- Ketevan Kintsurashvili,David Kakabadze, A 20th Century Classic, Monograph, Tbilisi: Saari, 2006.
- Olga Zhgenti, "Georgian Avant-Garde Cinema of the Twenties - from Anarchy to Totalitarianism"
Film[edit]
- Publications
- Discovering Georgian Cinema, ed. Susan Oxtoby, University of California, 2014, 38 pp. Brochure. [1]
New media art, Media culture[edit]
Cities: Tbilisi.
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